Further Readings
A Brief History of Literature in the Western Canon With apologies for the broad generalizations . . .
Freud, Sigmund. “The ‘Uncanny’.” (PDF) The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XVII (1917–1919): An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, pp. 217–256.
Saldaña, Stephanie. “In a Refugee’s Bags, Memories of Home.” The New York Times. March 11, 2017.
UN figures for global refugees
“Coming to America.” The New Yorker Sunday: A selection of stories from The New Yorker’s archive.
Grieco, Elizabeth. “The Foreign Born from the Dominican Republic in the United States.” Migration Policy Institute. October 1, 2004.
Samuel R. Delany
Samuel Delany interviewed by Kenneth James at Barnes and Noble. June 18, 2012. YouTube.
Samuel R. Delany reads from Through The Valley of the Nest of Spiders. April 12, 2012. YouTube.
Samuel R. Delany, Grand Master of Science Fiction. YouTube.
Bebergal, Peter. “Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction.” The New Yorker. July 29, 2015.
Mohja Kahf
Borhan, Abbasali, and Alireza Anushiravani. “Resistance and Uncanny Moments of In-Betweenness in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in Tangerine Scarf.” Journal Of Alternative Perspectives in The Social Sciences 8, no. 1 (September 2016): 1–22.
Lashley, Katherine. Writing Body and Culture: Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf. Journal of American Studies of Turkey 38 (2013): 49–64.
Junot Díaz
The New York Times topics page on Junot Díaz
News about Junot Díaz, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Toni Morrison
“Toni Morrison - Nobel Lecture.” Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB, 2014.
Images from the World of Toni Morrison’s Jazz (PDF - 3.2MB)
Dion Boucicault and Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins
Banham, Martin, ed. “Melodrama.” In The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780521434379.
Howes, Marjorie. “Melodramatic Conventions and Atlantic History in Dion Boucicault.” Éire-Ireland 46, no. 3 (2011): 84–101.
Foster, Verna A. “Meta-Melodrama: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Appropriates Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon.” Modern Drama 59, no. 3 (2016): 285–305.
Lunden, Jeff. “One Playwright’s ‘Obligation’ To Confront Race And Identity In The U.S.” NPR Code Switch. February 16, 2015.
Boucicault, Dion. The Octoroon.
Scan of 19th century edition
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. MacArthur Foundation.
Brantley, Ben. “Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Comedy About Race.” The New York Times. February 26, 2015.
Marks, Peter. “Nothing is Black and White in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s ‘An Octoroon’.” The Washington Post. June 6, 2016.
Resources
MIT Libraries Literature Research Guide
MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States)
Links to journals, materials, and the 2017 conference at MIT (April 27–30)
MLA Formatting and Style Guide. Purdue Online Writing Lab.
Perelman, Leslie C., James Paradis, and Edward Barrett. The Mayfield Handbook of Technical & Scientific Writing. The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2001.
MLA Documentation Guide. The Writing Center. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Spotlight on Grammar and Style
Corbett, Philip B."Begging the Question, Again." The New York Times. September 25, 2008.
Mayfield Manual Usage Glossary
Fowler, H. W. “The King’s English.” Clarendon Press, 1919.
